Contribution of Early Season Cowpea to Late Season Maize in the Savanna Zone of West Africa

By R. Carsky, B. Singh, B. Oyewole. 2001

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Cover Crops, Fertilizer Nitrogen Rates, and Economic Return of Grain Sorghum (2016, methodology): “The NFRV was calculated following a procedure described by Hesterman et al. (1992) and Carsky et al. (2001).”
• Adaptation to climate change through the choice of cropping system and sowing date in sub-Saharan Africa (2013, unknown): “, 2006) - maize double cropping in western Nigeria (Francis, 1986b) - cowpea-maize sequence cropping in the moist Savannah zone of northern Nigeria (Carsky et al., 2001), - soybean and wheat sequences in Zimbabwe (Beets, 1982), - sorghum and pigeonpea in northern Nigeria (Francis, 1986a), - sorghum ”
• Breeding drought tolerant cowpea: constraints, accomplishments, and future prospects (2009, background): “The drier zones of northern Nigeria and Niger harbor the largest area of cowpea production in the world but yields are only between 100 and 500 kg ha, despite its five times higher biological potential (Carsky et al. 2001).”